Burton and Taylor are reunited on Hollywood Walk of Fame

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Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor are to be reunited on the Hollywood Walk of FameEverett Collection/Rex Features

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Burton and Taylor at the Hotel du Golf di Valescure shortly after Taylor had won an Best Actress Oscar for her part in ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’Keystone/Getty Images

Times Staff

Last updated at 12:01AM, February 15 2013

Screen star Richard Burton is to be given a posthumous place on the Hollywood
Walk Of Fame almost three decades after his death — next to Elizabeth
Taylor, the movie siren he married twice.

The Welsh actor will be given the accolade on March 1 — St David’s Day — in a
ceremony which will be part of celebrations to commemorate the 50th
anniversary of movie epic Cleopatra, in which the two stars shared a screen
for the first time.

Burton’s star on the Walk Of Fame in Los Angeles was confirmed today by the
Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. It follows a campaign